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K. A. LEWIS.

EGG FRYING PAN.

APPLlcATloN FILED Nov. H3. |913.

Patented Out. 28, i919.

u m fIllIIlllI/l/lllllllll central ticularly to frying pans for f 'STATES PATENT OFFICE.

- ZENNETBA. LEWIS, 0F SANDY, NEW YORK.

EGG-FBYING PAN.

1,319,878. lmltlcn i Letter Intent Patented Oct. 28, 1919.

l Application med November Il, 1918. Serial lo. 868,048. To all 'whom t may concern.' l walls of the ou l extend upward] a short Be it known that I, KENNETHA. citizen 'of the Sandy Creek, State of New Lewis, a

in the county of Oswego, York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Eg -Frying Pans; and I do hereby declare t e following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to new and useful improvements in cooking vessels and parmg e gs.

One object of the present invention `is to provide a novel and improved frying pan wherein a number of individual eggs can fried without danger of running together.

Another object of the invention is to provide a novel .and 'im roved frying pan wherein there is roviged a grease rece tacle from which ot grease may be easi y and quickly obtained to pour over the frying eggs to baste them.

A further obect is to provide a novel and improved rying pan which includes a number of individua egg compartments and a central grease compartment into the latter of which the excess grease from the eggs in the dierent compartments will ow. y

Other objects and advantages willbe apparent from the following description when taken in connection with the accompanying drawing.

' In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a pan made in accordance with my invention.

Fig. 2'is a top plan view of the same.

Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse sectional view taken on the line 8 3 of-Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a bottom plan view of the pan, showing the supporting flange and the ease cup or compartment.

Referrlng particularly to the accompanyingdrawing, the pan includes the bottom 10, vfrom the peripheral edge of which there extends upwardly and outwardly the surrounding ange or wall 11. In the center of the bottom 10 there is formed 'an opening 12, circular in outline, and depending from the walls of this opening is a grease receptacleor cup 13. The surrounding United States, residing atA distance above t e upper face of t e bottom of the pan, as shown at 14, and extending upward y from the upper ed e of this'wall is an upwardly and outwar ly ared surrounding screen-wall 15. The portions 14 of the cup walls `form the inner walls of the compartments of the pan, shown at 16 and which are separated from each, ot er by the vertical and radially extending partition walls 17. In each of the compartments, surrounding the central cup, an egg is placed, and bty reason of the walls 1 he eggs are kept rom running together, an

by reason ofthe walls 14 the eggs are prevented from runnin into the cup. The screen wall 15 effective y prevents the swelling egg from overowi into the cup, while at the 'same' time )the excess grease from the ldierent eggs is permitted to flow through this screen wall back into the cen, tral grease cup,

Depending from the outer side walls of the pan, and extending downwardly to a point in the plane of the bottom of the grease cu is a flange 18 which serves to support t e pan on the stove, and at the same time confines heat therewithin and around the grease cup, whereby said cup, and the contained grease will be kept in a very hot condition. Also, the bottom of the pan will be kept in a hotter condition than otherwise. Thus the usual practice of tilting the pan to scoop up the grease in the pan for the purpose o curing the :ame over the frying eggs, to aste them, is obviated, as a p enti ul supply of ase is contained in the cup from which 1t can be easily and quickly scooped out and poured over the eg lvlfnimd 1.1 g an avm a centra e ression below the bottom of Iahe pan and fiirminga grease receiving compartment, radiating partitions forming egg compartments between the depresslon and the rim of the pan and straining means between the egg and grease compartments forpermitting the passage of-grease therebetween but preventing the esca e of the eggs :fromv the egg compartments into the central depresslon.

2. A frying pan having a central depression below the bottom of the pen end formrounding wall andcontacting with the ining a grease compartment, o pluralit of nel' ends of the seid partitions. 10

artitions extending from the wall o the In testimony whereof, I ax my signoepression to the rim of the pan, the sux-- ture, in the prsence of two witnesses.

rounding wall of the depression extending KENNETH A. LEWIS. a. short distance wbove the bottom of the Witnesses: pan, and a, reticuleted wel] extendin up- JAY L. UPmN,

wardly from the upper end of the sai sur- JAB. A. Coon. 

